Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?
This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.
Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.
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Notes -
No mod actions in the last week! Aside from a couple outright deletions (which I assume were for bot/spam comments or something similar).
What happened? Have all the troublemakers simply been banned at this point? Or have the topics under discussion become more anodyne? I would have thought that things would be heating up with the election approaching.
Slow CW week. “Look what those people did” is probably our biggest source of moddable comments.
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I hate to say it, but the selection effects are nearing completion, and on most major culture war issues this place is effectively an echo chamber. Even our token woke progressive hasn't posted here in nearly five months (not that I found his contributions particularly interesting or productive, but their absence is the canary in the coalmine). Mod actions tend to be in response to people being inflammatory or antagonistic, and most people have little interest in antagonising or insulting someone they're largely in agreement with.
It looks like we need to fight more about whether or not God exists. It's hilarious that, if anything, most "conflict" seems to be in the Friday Fun threads.
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A few months ago, in what I think is a now-deleted comment (I can find it on google but not their profile), WhiningCoil made the joke that perfect moderation had been achieved because nobody wanted to post in the culture war thread.
I'll echo that sentiment and say that perfect moderation has indeed been achieved, regardless of your definition of perfect moderation :)
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